Outer Space and the City
2023-2025
Marie-Pier Boucher, Alice Jarry, Guillaume Pascale.
Diptych media installation composed of an architectural maquette and a video of space infrastructure and
space debris.
Outer Space in the City is a diptych media installation that brings together an architectural maquette and a video to explore the intersections between urban environments and outer space. Taking Communication to the Next Level reimagines the traditional architectural model by vertically layering a series of Google Earth images. This media maquette challenges our understanding of spatial infrastructures in the city, revealing how communication systems today operate across a vertical continuum—from the geological depths of the Earth to the orbital heights of space. The layered stack visualizes how modern cities are shaped by the invisible networks enabled by space technologies. Space Junkies is a short film composed of publicly available space imagery and audio, as well as materials collected during our ethnographic research at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris (2022). These include media, merchandise, and ephemera distributed by space agencies and private companies—stress balls, tote bags, pins, stickers, water bottles, t-shirts, postcards, car fresheners, brochures, and more. The film highlights the paradox at the heart of today’s space industry: while organizations promote sustainability and environmental responsibility, they simultaneously contribute to the growing threat of space debris—pollution that may one day render space exploration impossible.
Canadian Cultural Center
Article in Heliotrope Journal
Pedagogies for Cohabitation with Interplanetary Infrastructures article
Project Page
Support: SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, 2021-2023
Marie-Pier Boucher, Alice Jarry, Guillaume Pascale.
Diptych media installation composed of an architectural maquette and a video of space infrastructure and
space debris.
Outer Space in the City is a diptych media installation that brings together an architectural maquette and a video to explore the intersections between urban environments and outer space. Taking Communication to the Next Level reimagines the traditional architectural model by vertically layering a series of Google Earth images. This media maquette challenges our understanding of spatial infrastructures in the city, revealing how communication systems today operate across a vertical continuum—from the geological depths of the Earth to the orbital heights of space. The layered stack visualizes how modern cities are shaped by the invisible networks enabled by space technologies. Space Junkies is a short film composed of publicly available space imagery and audio, as well as materials collected during our ethnographic research at the International Astronautical Congress in Paris (2022). These include media, merchandise, and ephemera distributed by space agencies and private companies—stress balls, tote bags, pins, stickers, water bottles, t-shirts, postcards, car fresheners, brochures, and more. The film highlights the paradox at the heart of today’s space industry: while organizations promote sustainability and environmental responsibility, they simultaneously contribute to the growing threat of space debris—pollution that may one day render space exploration impossible.
Canadian Cultural Center
Article in Heliotrope Journal
Pedagogies for Cohabitation with Interplanetary Infrastructures article
Project Page
Support: SSHRC, Insight Development Grant, 2021-2023
Space Junkies: Interplanetary Hoarding. Video. Ars Electronica, Linz, 2023; Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, 2025.
Outer Space and the City (Space Junkies + Taking Communication to the Next Level). Maquette and video. Canadian Cultural Center-Paris, Paris, France.
Taking Communication to the Next Level. Architectural Maquette, 10th Architecture Biennale. Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2022.
